Automation of the novel object recognition task for use in adolescent rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 99-103

  Silvers, Janelle M ^a   Harrod, Steven B ^a   Mactutus, Charles F ^a   Booze, Rosemarie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity chambers; Adolescence; Object recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HABITUATION; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; LEARNING STYLE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SKILL RETENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; BRAIN; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34548476223     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2007.06.032     Document Type: Article

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